..By contrast, supplementation of ribitol had negligible effects, if any, on polyketide quantities although it is the main carbon source for the mycobiont in free-living lichens with Trebouxia photobiont...

..This proves SMART RACE to be a suitable tool for obtaining full-length coding sequences of genes from environmental samples and organisms, which are hardly amenable to standard molecular approaches or genomic sequencing...

Production and bioactivity of common lichen metabolites as exemplified by Heterodea muelleri (Hampe) Nyl